> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Salman H Butt
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN
>
>
> argh, i realize some parts of that email were incoherent..
> let me try that
> again:
>
> ok, well, just for the hell of it, i read a little on
> dhcpcd.. and then
> logged in as root and typed 'dhcpcd -d eth0' -- and got my ip
> back. then
> my net connection started working. anyway, i had to restart a
> few times to
> take care of some other stuff.. in fact, i had to hit restart
> on my computer
> since
> netscape ate up all my resources (i was using an old, sucky version of
> netscape).. anyway, it continued to work and then suddenly stopped
> working.. i got it to work again one time, but then when i
> restarted, it
> stopped working. it seems to be going in and out. i remember reading
> something about 3c90x cards on a 10mbit lan going in and out
> since they are
> automatically set
> to 100mbit by the 3c90x module. the post said something about
> the module
> sometimes failing to connect and timing out, thus killing the
> connection. i
> checked out /var/logs/syslog and found
> this in the file:
>
> Jan 29 00:40:07 papercut dhcpcd[840]: dhcpStart: ioctl
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such
> device
It looks as though when dhcp tries to start it is unable to find your NIC.
Look at your /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
It should read:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
If your settings are there then it may very well be a problem with your NIC.
>From what I read there were several versions of the 3c905b, some of which
would not work
properly and/or at all in Linux with the 3c90x driver.
If this is the case you may want to try another driver. Either trial and
error with those included with 7.2 or by installing from the link I
previouly sent.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
